A multinational European team (composed of Germans, Dutch and Russian scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) ), published a paper in Nature Photonics where they proposed the use of terahertz radiation – commonly known as t-rays – as an entirely new way of controlling magnetization in computer memory cells.

Competition in the HPC processor continue with Adapteva, a specialist in the design of energy efficient accelerator chips and compute modules, announcing a 1024 core processor – thanks, in part to a grant from the US, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Hurricane Matthew was on the news this last few days and as it was moving through the Caribbean with deadly effect, Florida Governor Rick Scott was already warning residents of the state that they needed to leave the low-lying areas in the eastern parts of the state. If people didn't leave, he said, "This storm will kill you. It's a monster, get out."

Following Amazon announcement to install data centers in France, it is now Microsoft’s turn to announce that it has decided to offer its cloud services from French data centers next year. A smart move to reassure its local business customers who are not always very enthusiast when it comes to host their data out of France.

Dropbox is finally answering a long time request from many of its customers: the need for a Europe-based storage. The offer is already available but for beginning it will be reserved to business customers with accounts above 250 users.

Lately, it seems that every time NVIDIA is making an announcement it has to be about Deep Learning. The potential life changing revolutions emerging with this technology really matter for the GPU manufacturer and the least we can say is that the company has been working really hard on this area.